Gillmor Gang: Kaleidoscope Eyes

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The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — picture themselves in a boat on a river, as the first wave of Google Glass hits the network, aka Scoble’s forehead. @scobleizer promises to never take off this thing, and even the hyperbole doesn’t refute the central notion. As was evidenced over the last few days in Boston, the whole world is not only watching but feeding the realtime stream. Social meets mainstream.

As Google Glass goes into alpha, Apple’s stock collapse seems to indicate a changing of the guard. But our bet (I don’t think I’m alone in this) reflects not only the volatility of who’s on first but the value of a real horse race in floating all boats. More likely we’ll see a back and forth motion as Apple, Google, Twitter, and Facebook surge ahead and then are overtaken. The winners — that would be us.

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BioRobert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, [Scobleizer](http://scobleizer.com/), which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at [Microsoft](/company/microsoft).
Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized …

BioJohn Taschek is vice president of strategy at salesforce.com. He is responsible for corporate product strategy, corporate intelligence and market influence. Taschek came to company in 2003, bringing over 20 years of technology evaluation experience.
Taschek currently is also the editorial director for CloudBlog - an independent blog run as an adjunct to salesforce.com's web properties. He occasionally …

BioKevin Marks is a software engineer. Kevin served as an evangelist for [OpenSocial](http://www.crunchbase.com/product/opensocial) and as a software engineer at [Google](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google). In June 2009 [he announced](http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/06/farewell-to-google.html) his resignation.
From September 2003 to January 2007 he was Principal Engineer at [Technorati](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/technorati) …

BioSteve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space. He is Head of Technical Media Strategy at salesforce.com and a TechCrunch contributing editor.
Gillmor previously worked with leading musical artists including Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, and members of The Band after an early career as a record producer and filmmaker with Columbia Records' Firesign …